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March 26, 2013Contact: Sara R. LeonardManager of Concert Programming, Production and Publicity413/542-2195AMHERST, Mass. – The Amherst College-based Erebos String Quartet presents a concert of one work on Saturday, April 6 at 8 p.m. in Buckley Recital Hall in the Arms Music Center at Amherst College. The concert, approximately one half hour in length, is free and open to the public; seating is by general admission.

Amherst College performance instructors Sarah Briggs, violin, and Delores Thayer, viola, are joined by Joseph Jewett, violin, and Rebecca Hartka, 'cello, in Steve Reich's Different Trains (1988) for string quartet and pre-recorded tape. The work explores the parallels between the cross-country train trips Reich (b. 1936) took as a child and the trains transporting Jews to imprisonment and death during World War II. The tape contains the voices of Holocaust survivors and train conductors that become the basis for musical melodies. A serious work, it ends with an extraordinary sense of beauty.

Amherst College professor of music David Schneider introduces the work.

The concert is part of Amherst's year-long Copland colloquium "Art in Place and the Place of Art."